Torsten Weber has been a scientist at the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) of the Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon since May 2011. He is currently leading the two sub-projects of the BMBF-funded collaborative projects WaRisCo and SASSCAL 2.0 TIPPECC and is working on the BMBF-funded project CICLES. Torsten Weber has many years of experience in the analysis and assessment of regional climate change with a focus on Africa and in the demand-oriented development of climate services. For example, in the recently completed sub-project of the collaborative project WASCAL WRAP 2.0 LANDSURF, he worked with project partners to identify the needs of potential users of a web-based decision support system for agriculture and risk management in West Africa that was developed in the project.
Moreover, Torsten Weber worked on the successfully completed BMBF projects SASSCAL I and The Future Okavango (TFO). These projects encompassed a range of different activities, including the analysis of future regional climate change and the implementation of capacity-building measures in southern Africa. Additionally, he contributed to the EU project LIFE LOCAL ADAPT, which provided support to small and medium-sized municipalities in Europe in integrating climate change adaptation into their work.
After studying meteorology at the Freie Universität Berlin, Torsten Weber relocated to the Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie in Hamburg as a PhD student. During this time he was a member of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “Cloud Climate Feedbacks“ and a student at the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM). For his PhD thesis, he analysed the impact of inhomogeneities on non-linear cloud processes as for instance the cloud and precipitation formation in a global climate model.
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